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Accela Asset Management for Water Distribution Systems Provide access to clean, safe water for your community The Accela Civic Platform provides an integrated asset management and work order solution for maintaining and servicing your water distribution system. Whether you’re expanding the system to supply drinking water to a growing population or managing the rehabilitation of leaky and corroded pipes, Accela can help keep your water system operating efficiently and compliant with federal and local regulations for water quality. With increasing pressure to keep contamination and pollution out of your system, Accela Asset Management helps you strategically manage infrastructure assets and keep your community hydrated. From water mains, storage units and pump stations to treatment plants and backflow preventers, use the Accela Civic Platform and GIS to inventory your assets, perform condition assessments, and create and prioritize work orders for services that need to be performed immediately or in the future. Benefits Track asset inventory and lifetime history: Maintain a comprehensive lifecycle of assets, including a history of inventory, preventative maintenance and condition assessments. Monitor service requests from inception to completion: Automatically generate work orders in response to web-based service requests submitted with Accela Citizen Access, document work status from the field and send email or text notifications when work is complete. Integrate with Esri ® ArcGIS to expedite work order creation and asset identification: Whether you’re in the office or in the field, access geospatial information on water system infrastructure and work orders with Accela’s award-winning integration with Esri ArcGIS. Manage preventative maintenance schedules: Create schedules configured against a single drain or your entire system. Use work order templates to prepopulate standard details for routine, repetitive jobs, making it easy to use by keeping data entry to a minimum. Maximize the value of your time in the field: With the Accela Civic Platform or the Accela Work Crew app, field technicians can create, assign, complete or reschedule work orders; record associated costs of an assessment and receive last-minute updates or alerts from anywhere on their mobile devices. Monitor key performance indicators: Access your agency data wherever you are on your Apple iPhone or iPad with Accela Analytics. Using Accela reporting tools, agency staff, department heads, executives, public officials and others can monitor real-time statistics viewed as graphs, charts or tables, with drill-down capability to access specific details of individual assets. Simplify data extraction and sharing: Extract key data quickly and easily. Work order, asset and other water system data can be directly exported to a spreadsheet for use in compatible third-party applications, presentations or reports. Capture data from system pressure and water quality testing: Store assessment and inspection results from pipes and other system components to review and reference directly against associated work orders and permits.

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Accela Asset Management for Water Distribution Systems Provide access to clean, safe water for your community The Accela Civic Platform provides an integrated asset management and work order solution for maintaining and servicing your water distribution system. Whether you’re expanding the system to supply drinking water to a growing population or managing the rehabilitation of leaky and corroded pipes, Accela can help keep your water system operating efficiently and compliant with federal and local regulations for water quality.

With increasing pressure to keep contamination and pollution out of your system, Accela Asset Management helps you strategically manage infrastructure assets and keep your community hydrated. From water mains, storage units and pump stations to treatment plants and backflow preventers, use the Accela Civic Platform and GIS to inventory your assets, perform condition assessments, and create and prioritize work orders for services that need to be performed immediately or in the future.

Benefits

• Track asset inventory and lifetime history: Maintain a comprehensive lifecycle of assets, including a history of inventory, preventative maintenance and condition assessments.

• Monitor service requests from inception to completion: Automatically generate work orders in response to web-based service requests submitted with Accela Citizen Access, document work status from the field and send email or text notifications when work is complete.

• Integrate with Esri® ArcGIS to expedite work order creation and asset identification: Whether you’re in the office or in the field, access geospatial information on water system infrastructure and work orders with Accela’s award-winning integration with Esri ArcGIS.

• Manage preventative maintenance schedules: Create schedules configured against a single drain or your entire system. Use work order templates to prepopulate standard details for routine, repetitive jobs, making it easy to use by keeping data entry to a minimum.

• Maximize the value of your time in the field: With the Accela Civic Platform or the Accela Work Crew app, field technicians can create, assign, complete or reschedule work orders; record associated costs of an assessment and receive last-minute updates or alerts from anywhere on their mobile devices.

• Monitor key performance indicators: Access your agency data wherever you are on your Apple iPhone or iPad with Accela Analytics. Using Accela reporting tools, agency staff, department heads, executives, public officials and others can monitor real-time statistics viewed as graphs, charts or tables, with drill-down capability to access specific details of individual assets.

• Simplify data extraction and sharing: Extract key data quickly and easily. Work order, asset and other water system data can be directly exported to a spreadsheet for use in compatible third-party applications, presentations or reports.

• Capture data from system pressure and water quality testing: Store assessment and inspection results from pipes and other system components to review and reference directly against associated work orders and permits.

Key Features

• Initiate and document work orders from the office or from the field. • Manage asset information, including attributes, cost, value (considering depreciation), location and

maintenance history. • Automatically schedule preventative maintenance and perform condition assessments on assets. • Manage parts and materials to ensure you always have enough supplies on-hand for work order

demands. • Perform intelligent maintenance analysis and planning with historical data. • Comply with agency-specific or industry reporting requirements, such as Governmental Accounting

Standards Board Statement 34 (GASB 34), with flexible reporting tools. Initiate work orders by selecting assets directly from agency-defined Esri maps. To learn more about Accela Asset Management solutions and other Accela offerings, visit us at www.accela.com or call 888.722.2352.

About Accela Accela powers thousands of services and millions of transactions daily for large and small public agencies worldwide. We connect government to people and accelerate and streamline land management, licensing, asset management, and public health and safety processes. The Accela Civic Platform includes cloud-based, office, mobile and social applications to support government agency, business and citizen needs and a robust open platform and business model for developers. Accela is headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., with international offices in Australia and the United Arab Emirates. For more information, visit www.accela.com. ©2014 Accela, Inc. All rights reserved.